Kavli Affiliate: Masahito Yamazaki | First 5 Authors: Dongmin Gang, Sungjoon Kim, Kimyeong Lee, Myungbo Shim, Masahito Yamazaki | Summary: We propose a novel procedure of assigning a pair of non-unitary topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), TFT$_pm [mathcal{T}_{rm rank ;0}]$, to a (2+1)D interacting $mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) $mathcal{T}_{rm rank ;0}$ of rank 0, […]
Kavli Affiliate: George Efstathiou | First 5 Authors: George Efstathiou, , , , | Summary: This paper investigates whether changes to late time physics can resolve the `Hubble tension’. It is argued that many of the claims in the literature favouring such solutions are caused by a misunderstanding of how distance ladder measurements actually work […]
Kavli Affiliate: Albert Stebbins | First 5 Authors: Jack Burns, Gregg Hallinan, Tzu-Ching Chang, Marin Anderson, Judd Bowman | Summary: An array of low-frequency dipole antennas on the lunar farside surface will probe a unique, unexplored epoch in the early Universe called the Dark Ages. It begins at Recombination when neutral hydrogen atoms formed, first […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chao-Lin Kuo | First 5 Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott | Summary: We report results from searches for anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. For the first time, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Laura Schaefer | First 5 Authors: Edwin S. Kite, Laura Schaefer, , , | Summary: Data suggest that most rocky exoplanets with orbital period $p$ $<$ 100 d ("hot" rocky exoplanets) formed as gas-rich sub-Neptunes that subsequently lost most of their envelopes, but whether these rocky exoplanets still have atmospheres is unknown. We […]
Kavli Affiliate: Noah Kurinsky | First 5 Authors: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Edgar Marrufo Villalpando, Judah O’Neil, Juan Estrada, Stephen Holland | Summary: We characterize the response of a novel 250 $mu$m thick, fully-depleted Skipper Charged-Coupled Device (CCD) to visible/near-infrared light with a focus on potential applications for astronomical observations. We achieve stable, single-electron resolution with readout […]
Kavli Affiliate: Yasunori Nomura | First 5 Authors: Hao Geng, Yasunori Nomura, Hao-Yu Sun, , | Summary: We formulate a version of the information paradox in de Sitter spacetime and show that it is solved by the emergence of entanglement islands in the context of the DS/dS correspondence; in particular, the entanglement entropy of a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tomotake Matsumura | First 5 Authors: Qi Wen, Elena Fadeeva, Shaul Hanany, Jürgen Koch, Tomotake Matsumura | Summary: We use a 1030 nm laser with 7 ps pulse duration and average power up to 100 W to ablate pyramid-shape subwavelength structures (SWS) on alumina and sapphire. The SWS give an effective and cryogenically […]
Kavli Affiliate: Erin Kara | First 5 Authors: Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, Jiachen Jiang, Douglas J. K. Buisson, Dan R. Wilkins, Luigi C. Gallo | Summary: The optical and UV variability of the majority of AGN may be related to the reprocessing of rapidly-changing X-ray emission from a more compact region near the central black hole. Such […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kohei Inayoshi | First 5 Authors: Yu Qiu, Brian R. McNamara, Tamara Bogdanovic, Kohei Inayoshi, Luis C. Ho | Summary: Outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are an important channel for accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to interact with their host galaxies and clusters. Properties of the outflows are however poorly constrained […]